Barry's Books
The Darkest Corners
The concluding part of this darkly funny, horror series Darren Shan called... read more
The 13th Horseman
Drake is surprised to find three Horsemen of the Apocalypse playing snakes and... read more
Doc Mortis
The fourth thrilling book in this darkly funny horror series Darren Shan called... read more
Raggy Maggie
The second book in the award-winning Invisible Fiends series. Billy is the... read more
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Mounting up for The 13th Horseman
Invisible Fiends book 5 is now off to my editor, so I’m about to get stuck into writing THE 13th HORSEMAN. I wrote 6 chapters when pitching the story to HarperCollins. Here’s a little extract for you: Another alarm squealed. Drake looked back to see the spheres slicing through the air after them, their blades tearing through everything in their path. Four cars, five, fell apart like broken toys. The wall became bricks, the bricks became dust, and the balls …
Snowed in
Got back from a couple of days at the AYE WRITE festival in Glasgow on Friday night. Great fun, just like last year, and it was good to meet up with me old mucker, Tommy Donbavand, and to finally meet CHANGELING author, Steve Feasey in person. While there, I managed to finish a rewrite of INVISIBLE FIENDS: THE BEAST (available to pre-order on Amazon now), in which Kyle and Ameena find themselves trapped in a snowed in village and hunted …
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Tagged Events, Festivals, Invisible Fiends, Other authors, Snow, The Beast
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The Unclaimed Girl
Late last year, I was asked to write a short story for the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s website, based on the theme of “Elsewhere”. The story could be about anything, as long as it incorporated the theme of new, different places in some form or another. My interpretation of the theme was a story called THE UNCLAIMED GIRL. It is now available to read online for free on the festival’s website. To read the story on the page, click here. …
Mega Blog Catch-up Post
Wow. March. When did that happen? I know, I know – immediately after February and right before April, but, I mean… how did it get here so fast? February in particular seemed to fly by with a whoosh. First there was the Crowmaster Tour. Then we moved house (again!). And then there was the little matter of MR MUMBLES winning the Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children’s Books. Oh, and I crammed a few events in there, and wrote around …
Posted in Books, Personal
Tagged Awards, Events, extract, Invisible Fiends, Other authors, Signings, The Beast, The Crowmaster
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